Senator Bill Nelson of Florida is
telling us that the oil is gushing up around the casing. The casing has failed.
There are multiple layers of oil and gas, probably 50 in this well. If you
could seal the bottom layer, in this well, the casing and cement has been blown
out. You cannot seal the other 49 layers of oil and gas above this layer. Your
cap is a failure that can not be closed. The more you close it, the more the
oil and gas will come through the sea floor. You will never be able to shut
this gushing well down. The best you can do is relieve the oil and gas pressure
from this region.

You need to take the oil and gas
pressure out of this area. Drill eight wells around this blowout well,
positioned 1000 to 1500 feet apart.
2(two) new directional wells being drilled into this well, theoretically to be
completed by August 2010, will not work to solve this Transocean-Halliburton-BP
blowout well and will create a larger uncontrolled blowout disaster.

Reasons for the mudlogs

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1)A mudlog is a schematic
cross sectional drawing of the lithology (rock type) of the well that has been bored. Without looking at the mudlogs and e-logs, we are all navigating
blind. They are the forensic tool that you use to discover what happened. The
mudlog is your map and your compass and your guiding star.

2)How many oil and gas
horizons were there in this well? There was certainly more than one. The mudlog
will list the gas and oil horizons. Were there 10, 30 or 50? Which of these
many horizons are we trying to seal? Are the proposed directional wells above
some oil and gas horizons and below others? Why is this choice being made?
Regardless, the directional wells that are being drilled, can not seal an open
well or blown out well or blown out formation. Back pressure is required for
drilling mud to stay in the well to keep the oil out to allow the cement to
set. We need a quiet zone for the cement to set, not a "roaring river" of oil
and gas. Whether you inject that cement from the top of the well or the bottom
of the well, you have not changed a thing. The pressure in the well is the same
everywhere. Directional wells will not work. You only create more holes with less
back pressure to keep out the oil and gas. The drilling mud escapes. The cement
escapes. Only new wells that do not intersect this blowout well will help drain
the gas and oil pressure from this region. It is too late for this well. It can
not be sealed.

3)It is a dangerous game
drilling into high pressure oil and gas zones because you risk having a blowout
if your mud weight is not heavy enough. If you weight up your mud with barium
sulfate to a very high level, you
risk BLOWING OUT THE FORMATION. What
does that mean? It means you crack the rock deep underground and as the
mudweight is now denser than the rock it escapes into the rock in the pore
spaces and the fractures. The well empties of mud. If you have not hit high
pressure oil or gas at this stage, you are lucky. If you have, the oil and gas
comes flying up the well and you have a blowout, because you have no mud in the
well to suppress the oil and gas. You shut down the well with the blowout
preventer. If you do not have a blowout preventer, you are in trouble as we
have all seen and you can only hope that the oil and gas pressure will
naturally fall off with time, otherwise you have to try and put a
newblowout preventerin place with oil and gas coming out as you
work.

4)More directional wells into the blowout well will create more holes in the casing and production pipe for the
oil and gas to leak out of, by drilling more rough boreholes into this well. More
cement and mud from more points is not going to help. You are justcreating more holes
and you will not be able to see whether your seal is working at three miles
down inside the rock at these juncture points.

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BP, publish the mudlogs and e-logs so that we can
study the forensic evidence.You need to drill 8 new wells 1000 to 1500 feet apart
around this existingwell to relieve the oil and gas pressure out of
this region.BP, you are wasting time with a directional well
solution forAugust 2010that can not work. It is designed for failure. It
is a waste of time and too late for that solution.

5)The drilling cap and pipes that are now collecting 15000 barrels
of oil a day could be blown off if you push more drilling mud into this well
when the directional wells intersect in August 2010.

6)You will have to weight up the mud significantly and you risk
either, blowing off the cap or blowing out the formation to a greater degree
than it is already blown out.

I was born in South Africa in 1958. I came to the USA with my wife and three daughters in 2003. We became US citizens in 2009 and 2010. My wife Susan is a Special Education English Teacher. She has a bachelor's degree in Micro anatomy and (more...)